KDE’s AI Policy Drama, Explained https://tube.kockatoo.org/videos/watch/b97487b5-b544-4652-8548-c0a732f87f45 Links: Original KDE-devel mailing list discussion: https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-devel/2026-September/004496.html Archived proposed KDE LLM guidelines: https://archive.ph/6YccJ Akademy talk, “What would it take: a lovable, sovereign, AI-native KDE?”: https://media.ccc.de/v/kde2026-32-what_would_it_take_a_lovable_sovereign_ai_native_kde Akademy talk, “Are we really going to use the same desktop UX forever?”: https://media.ccc.de/v/kde2026-7-are_we_really_going_to_use_the_same_desktop_ux_forever Nate Graham’s account of the discussion and withdrawn draft: https://pointieststick.com/2026/09/23/kde-and-ai-and-you-and-me/ KDE for People open letter: https://kdeforpeople.com/ KDE Code of Conduct: https://kde.org/code-of-conduct/ KDE Commit Policy: https://community.kde.org/Policies/Commit_Policy Brodie Robertson, “KDE's AI Policy Is Taking An Interesting Turn”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2wJLuDAYzE IEA, “Energy and AI” executive summary: https://www.iea.org/reports/energy-and-ai/executive-summary Google’s Gemini prompt footprint estimate: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/measuring-the-environmental-impact-of-ai-inference Google’s technical paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15734 Music, “Make Funk” by HoliznaCC0: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/holiznacc0/bassic/make-funk/ Written articles: https://thelibre.news Website: https://nicco.love Telegram: https://t.me/veggeroblog PayPal: https://paypal.me/niccolove Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/niccolove Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/niccolove Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/niccolove Chapters: 0:00 What happened 0:52 The AI code problem 2:16 KDE’s policy discussion 2:27 The AI-native Akademy talk 4:09 Omarchy in a second talk 5:25 What the proposed guidelines said 7:48 Environmental language in the draft 8:28 The backlash and locked discussion 10:13 Two bans and the Code of Conduct 12:15 The KDE for People letter 13:49 Accusations and misunderstandings 15:31 My view on individual AI use 17:46 Companies and environmental impact 20:05 Insults, anxiety, and Mastodon 22:53 Where KDE stands Sat, 26 Sep 2026 04:56:20 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tube.kockatoo.org KDE’s AI Policy Drama, Explained https://tube.kockatoo.org/lazy-static/avatars/75ca8476-e2c4-4f21-b5a3-a2d70922e464.png https://tube.kockatoo.org/videos/watch/b97487b5-b544-4652-8548-c0a732f87f45 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tube.kockatoo.org/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder. <![CDATA[KDE’s AI Policy Drama, Explained - Talya (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️✡️]]> https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/oUfhxmz1GTVRPHBQTtZhiT;threadId=45519 https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/oUfhxmz1GTVRPHBQTtZhiT;threadId=45519 Fri, 25 Sep 2026 08:06:25 GMT @veggero so... no mention of the fact Nate dismissed the fine folks at KDE for People as "outside KDE" and as a pressure campaign? a statement that was shared by the KDE Mastodon account? and that in the later thread covering for Nate's flubs there was zero mention of "oh yeah we do actually care about what the community thinks", just letting Nate's dismissal of the community stand?

why is KDE for People an external pressure group but the talk at Akademy isn't? is KDE still a community project?

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